LETTER: Elimination of term limitation for presidents is frightening

Published: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 at 06:59 PM.

The USA is not the country of my parents.

Both my parents were born in the early 1900s so they experienced two world wars, the Great Depression and the Korean War. Yet, they had God and were allowed to have weapons. My two eldest brothers participated in World War II and one of my brothers was in the Korean War. I served during Vietnam and the Cuban crisis, but thankfully was never in a battle or on a battle front.

Yet, we still had God and were allowed to have weapons. During my time in service, there were always church services available and we always had a Catholic priest and a Protestant minister for counsel if needed.

Now you have to search for God in anything to do with government and we have turned our backs on Him related to all moral issues. Every time I view TV news or entertainment programming, I am confronted with gay programs, thoughts presented by movie stars or show hosts proclaiming drugs are OK if used in private, divorce is normal, etc.

There is talk about more gun controls. Newspaper editors stating everyone can agree on bans of semi-auto carbines. While I’m not against better tracking of gun sales to avoid sell of guns and ammo to felons, I do not understand why any law-abiding citizen can’t have all the guns he or she wants and can afford. People have been killing people since Cain and Abel and long before semi-auto or automatic weapons. If a person wants to kill, they have literally thousands of ways to do so and banning weapons and/or large magazines won’t stop them. Armed, law-abiding citizens can and do stop or reduce the number of deaths by violent crime.

Let me make this clear too: I am no fan of the NRA because I don’t believe in commercial force on lawmakers and I feel as though I’m having to pay protection services if I pay fees to the NRA.

Our elected officials have forgotten that they are supposed to be representing our wishes for running our government. They have morphed into super intelligent caretakers and know more than we possibly can about what is good for us. I hope you know the last sentence was facetious.

Both my parents were born in the early 1900s so they experienced two world wars, the Great Depression and the Korean War. Yet, they had God and were allowed to have weapons. My two eldest brothers participated in World War II and one of my brothers was in the Korean War. I served during Vietnam and the Cuban crisis, but thankfully was never in a battle or on a battle front.

Yet, we still had God and were allowed to have weapons. During my time in service, there were always church services available and we always had a Catholic priest and a Protestant minister for counsel if needed.

Now you have to search for God in anything to do with government and we have turned our backs on Him related to all moral issues. Every time I view TV news or entertainment programming, I am confronted with gay programs, thoughts presented by movie stars or show hosts proclaiming drugs are OK if used in private, divorce is normal, etc.

There is talk about more gun controls. Newspaper editors stating everyone can agree on bans of semi-auto carbines. While I’m not against better tracking of gun sales to avoid sell of guns and ammo to felons, I do not understand why any law-abiding citizen can’t have all the guns he or she wants and can afford. People have been killing people since Cain and Abel and long before semi-auto or automatic weapons. If a person wants to kill, they have literally thousands of ways to do so and banning weapons and/or large magazines won’t stop them. Armed, law-abiding citizens can and do stop or reduce the number of deaths by violent crime.

Let me make this clear too: I am no fan of the NRA because I don’t believe in commercial force on lawmakers and I feel as though I’m having to pay protection services if I pay fees to the NRA.

Our elected officials have forgotten that they are supposed to be representing our wishes for running our government. They have morphed into super intelligent caretakers and know more than we possibly can about what is good for us. I hope you know the last sentence was facetious.

Even now there is talk about doing away with the two-term limitation of the presidency. Folks, that is just not acceptable with me and I hope you’ll do everything you can to prevent the change from happening. I don’t like admitting fear of anything, but frankly that thought scares the heck out of me.

I am angry at the Democrats, I am disappointed with the Republicans and I don’t really know enough about the Tea Party. I believe it is going to take unheard changes in our legislative system before our mountain of problems will be solved. No one out there today is giving a detailed roadmap out of the wilderness. Please pray for someone trustworthy to come out of the woodwork with solutions.